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Rockin' Supercar: The Rebirth, Short Life, and Death of a Shark-Fin-Equipped '85 Toyota Tercel Wagon

Sometimes a very ordinary car becomes something special, maybe even loved, but that's not always enough to keep it out of the jaws of the crusher. This is the story of a second-gen Toyota Tercel wagon (known in Japan as the Sprinter Carib) and its journey from auction to lumber-hauler to kid transportation to a Chinese steel factory. Around the turn of the century, while I was working at a doomed dot-com in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood, I discovered that the city auctioned off all the unclaimed tow-away cars every week at nearby Pier 70.

Used '80s dream cars, an AW list

Ah, the '80s--the time of big hair, MTV and underpowered cars. The decade wasn't a total loss, though. You could find a few diamonds in the rough.

Ferrari 458 Spider by Kahn Design

Kahn design has revealed a Ferrari 458 Spider they’ve ‘customised’, although we’re struggling to see what they’ve done. It’s hard to criticise the PR efforts of A. Kahn Design – Bradford’s finest car customisers – with new cars being revealed all the time.